Watson Apologizes: "There is no scientific basis for such a belief."

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Watson Apologizes: "There is no scientific basis for such a belief."

Good Old Jimmy Watson has, like the racists before him, apologized, saying he was "mortified" and:

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologize unreservedly. That is not what I meant. More importantly from my point of view, there is no scientific basis for such a belief.

One commenter did have a great suggestion, though. Instead of the standard methods of scrubbing his racial record – meeting with Jesse Jackson or revealing his alcoholism – Watson should have to duke it out with Jared Diamond, and be pwned for all the world to see. (Then Diamond said, "Im in ur conference, tazing ur broz.")

In fact, I think we should start a drive right now to make thatDiamond v. Watson debate happen. Isn't that something we can all get behind? And after we're done, we'll deal with the climate change deniers and the evolution deniers. The good guys versus the bad guys always makes for great TV. Wouldn't you like to see that on Wired Science television?